PERSONAL PROFILE

The growing role of many asymmetries between (and inside) countries poses many relevant questions under the scenarios of “globalization + crisis”. The “external imbalances” have been a feature of the road to the crisis, linked with important differentials in competitiveness, both at the global and the European level. In parallel, inequalities in the distribution of the “dividends of globalization” and of the costs of the crisis surge and, at the same time, public policies are losing effectiveness. How have we arrived to the present difficulties, with “stronger asymmetries, weaker institutions”?. Which are the scenarios emerging under these dynamics, at the global and more specifically in Europe and the countries more affected?